skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really got to hand it to the Royal Family of Qatar - they are geopolitical Warren Buffets.

The Arab Spring and all the bad things that ensued from it was effectively a giant geopolitical windfall for the Qatari royal family and their investments in founding that broadcaster.

They (almost) changed the entire geopolitical landscape of the Arab world to their benefit. Installing a caliphate here, toppling a major power like Egypt there. They even forced Saudi Arabia into concessions.

All of that, like the NATO-buffoons sending fighter jets into Libya because the Qataris social-engineered the Western public into demanding it, is an amazing show of political skills.

Gee, the poor Europeans till this day don't even realize how much their "refugee-crisis" has been instigated as a "weapon of mass migration" by the Qataris using their set of tools of which Al Jazeera is one.
Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
I use relatively few TUI's, and don't know much about them—about what good, convenient UX flows in TUI's can look like. I want to write some in Emacs. Do you have particularly nice examples of TUI's that deserve to be known and imitated? I know there's a lot of abandoned programs from the pre-GUI era that refined TUI's to a high level.

(I'm only familiar with a handful of modern ones in Emacs—Magit, the SLIME inspector, dired, as well as the terminal TUI from the Linux tool perf).
If your point is LLM-s are different than humans, I guess that goes without saying? We are not even on the same level yet.

> the most common word in a corpus of text on which it was trained

I think you are downplaying the fine grains of knowledge that can be encoded in a huge corpus of text. LLM-s are capable of taking context into account and encoding that too, not simply how often word A comes after B.

When I'm in a conversation I'm also selecting the optimal word from a predefined dictionary. That's precisely what's like speaking in a given language. Sure, I'm thinking a bit ahead and I can tap into my memory, feelings and experiences which influences everything.

But the optimal part is derived from context for me, it changes which word I use when I talk to a colleague, family or friend, but I might want to say the same thing. For stock LLM-s everything must be defined in the prompt if we are talking about zero-shot inference.

These models are opening good insight on how language works and I don't find that too dehumanising. There's plenty of room exists still for me to be human and do non AI things.

I get the notion that if we understand fully how something works the magic is gone, this always happens to AI. Are we afraid that this might happen to us too?
The British Museum's Blockbuster Scandals
Color Concepts 101 (2001) [pdf]
How is it compared to X11 forwarding?
Should Senior Devs Always Have to Hold Newbies' Hands?
I laughed

sound like a baby Richard Stallman (I like open source but still)
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This certainly doesn't hold for all locales, see de-DE for instance.

123456.789 euros is written as "123.456,79 €"
Apple’s behaviour specifically
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Note that the commenter isn't associated with traefik itself
Alas, no it doesn't. Language induces this sort of anthropomorphism in people, I guess, so consider images.

Suppose I take a billion images of all the coffee cups in the world, at a set of angles on the cup, and then build an associative (ie., frequency) statistical model of their pixels (ie., statistical AI). Consider generating one pixel at a time, in sequence, through the image. My associative model tells me P(col of next pixel | all previous).

Now, I can generate coffee cups images similar to any variation or combination of the images in the dataset. Now, you might say, "well you can only do that if you have a model of a coffee cup" (rather than of pixels) -- if so, just generate a coffee cup at one of the angles not in the dataset. This will not happen, because the model has not been provided with enough information to do so.

Namely, the model does not know the distance from the camera, the camera lens parameters, the angle to the coffee cup, etc. So there's literally a very very large inifinity of possible objects at unseen angles. Consider that underneath a coffee cup, the bottom might be missing entirely, etc.

Now it will appear to know all of these things, because its just generating images with these same parameters (camera, angle, distance, etc.). But as soon as you want "a coffee further away than has been seen before", or "a coffee using a macro lens", etc. the whole thing will fall over.

It is you, the view, who attributes 3D knowledge to the model because under ordinary circumstances the cause of a photo is features of a 3D environment.
Cum-ex is about taxes (and criminal law). It's unrelated to the stability of banks.
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/excuse-me-but-why-are...
theyre a lot like people in the spread of cognitive ability you can expect to see and how a lack in some areas can be made up for in others. Most animals are like that in my experience. For example, my cat has zero issues with mirrors, realistic cardboard cutouts etc. despite being super violent towards any other real cat, even if it is behind a window or a digital screen she hasn't figured out is a screen yet (which she checks by looking behind the screen to see if it is see-through both ways). She loves playing with you, but won't play if you aren't into it and she can tell. She refuses to play with things if you aren't participating in the game, for example loves chasing a feather on a string, but put the rod into a motorized unit? the moment she realizes you aren't holding the stick / watching she's out. Not just that, if you tried to deceive her into believing you were part of it, she'll sulk the rest of the day and, for lack of a better word, be catty. Other cats I've met? it varies, some are also super smart and understand causality etc. while others barely manage to not drown on their own spit.

The problem is, that much like it is hard to have a singular measure for intelligence in humans, it is not really feasible in animals of a given species either.

Some parrots will enjoy screen time, others wont. Some are more social, others less. Some will like phone calls, others wont. Just like people.
Let's not forget the extreme environmental impact a dam has.
Compressed air and water head are in a balance, my physics instincts strongly suggest that the hypothetical sum is 2x the amount of energy stored by raising the water alone. But just like you I do hope that my instincts are missing something!

(see nephew comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40273030 )
Reactors could be used for varying output - but the current high costs call for maximizing usage, so constant spec power in between scheduled maintenance.

But your second is also what I notice: (western) uranium demand would increase IF additional (western) reactors were coming out. And really very, very few of these are - hope sure, but hardly any actual construction. When there is construction, it takes quite a few years to get to production.

China was the only place still building in quantity. Is China still building? Where does China get its uranium supply? is THAT growing? Does that affect the rest?
Ahhh, I was thinking they were just funding the IDE.
Measuring inflation by salary is misguided, since real wages are not fixed as is clearly demonstrated by an honest rise in purchasing power. Food is a much smaller portion of income is a trivial way to see the dramatic changes.

Inflation is not underestimated by a factor of 3.5 over that time, as can be checked by nominal prices of a suitable basket of goods, which is the definition of inflation.
I genuinely cannot tell if this is real still. Like, I want to believe you, but this person is basically doing the best Michael Scott impersonation I’ve ever seen.
Debunked.

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/09/israel-genocide-gaza-us-aus...

And this was widely reported by the MSM.
How have you heard more about TikTok and Israel than TikTok and china? How is that possible??

India banned TikTok in 2020 accusing Chinese influence, are they time travelers?

Did israel convince all of these countries to ban TikTok?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_TikTok
Wow the Jewish World Domination Forum is really pushing its weight around lately.
Of course it was, that's what Hamas always told it wanted.

Unless by negotiation table you mean "whatever Israel wants and nothing else".
Holding a non-narrative driven view might be fascinating for some, I suppose.
Here's a better question, why is this on HN?
I use Gosund SP112. Available at Amazon, ~12€ / plug. Flashable with Tasmota or ESPHome (I use the later). It can switch the mains as well as one USB-A power outlet.

You need to open it to flash it the 1st time.

There's at least one unused accessible GPIO. On one I soldered an DS18x20 temperature sensor. Now it controls the heating in my shed based on the measured temperature stay above zero degrees in the winter.
If asked repeatedly, are you gonna answer that question with a different name, depending on which "memory" you randomly pick from?
Because it is a pejorative generalization. Some people are susceptible to labels like "the migrants" and short circuit their reasoning when confronted with eg. articles from RT or aljazeera "must be fictious enemy propanda".
> Most of the time we work on a single maximized application, otherwise we have some windows side-by-side to see both and so on.

With a few caveats (some smaller floating windows, always on top, occasionally for reference or playing a video I'm half paying attention to) I'm with you there. Under windows FancyZones is my current tool of choice, effectively splitting my 32" screen into two (or occasionally three) by various proportions, I don't use Linux on the desktop ATM but last time I did tiling window managers were my preference.

Though given how I keep lots open from various trains of thought, particularly browser tabs, spread over a few virtual desktops, I'm starting to think nested virtual desktops might be a thing to look for and try…

While we are here: if anyone can recommend a good tabbed file manager for Windows I'd be happy. Dual-pane works for some things but not otherwise. I've tried a few over the years, some that wrap Explorer, some that are entirely their own thing, and they've all proven unstable, take an age to start or open new windows, or are very leggy in response to any input, or some mix of all three of those problems (yep, more buggy and unresponsive than explorer itself!).
And regularly releasing new x server versions. It seems like there's a new release every couple of months.

For example, in January this year, xrandr got code to allow for multiple virtual monitors on a physical display. In April, there were 2 bugfix releases.
> They are definitely not genocidal...

I'll just direct you to the Hamas Charter (pdf): https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/attach...

Also to the history of Arab violence on Jews, both in the Levant and in the Middle East in general: https://medium.com/@Ksantini/the-list-of-crimes-committed-by...

Also to the latest attack on October 7th.

> There are genuinely pro-peace people on all sides of these issues, and pretending they don't exist is exactly the kind of rhetorical message that leads to more hate and violence.

No one pretends they don't exist. I genuinely love them. They are considered traitors and get a lot of hate, but all the more power and support to them. But it's foolish to pretend they are not rare.

John Aziz is amazing: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/gaza-israe...

Not supporting a two-state solution is genocidal, because it would require putting people who have explicitly stated that they want to kill Jews, in power. By their statements and behavior, Hamas, with overwhelming Gazan support, want a 1-state solution with Muslims in charge.
The struggle I have having many white male friends who express their particular struggles that I might even agree with are a problem is that 1) Many of the expressed issues are problems brought about by them that I can't do anything about. Literally. They need to get their own camp to change it 2) where #1 doesn't apply, I find that they're not willing to take part any kind of advocacy work. Even just, you know, speaking plainly that this sucks and I hate it. Why did I have to pull this knowledge of out you. The struggle of other groups is well known even if they are berated for having that struggle. 3) Often times, when #2 doesn't apply they get upset that people don't immediately fix it. And then I get to look like thr asshole who points out that other groups take a decade to accomplish one agenda item. You trying once isn't gonna cut it.

It's not that I'm not sympathetic, but it just feels like my white male friends really disregard the timeline of how these rights other groups fought for came about. That's part of the privilege of the dominant culture used to having their wants tended to in a year or two, not over a generation.
Is there something relevant about the 1800s? I said þ was an example of the written language changing to accommodate the printing press, not changing to accommodate the 1800s.
> Taiwan experiences cyberattacks each day. We should pay attention

Like every country. Data brokers need to get the data some way or another.
The manufacture of the device he bought sells it with tasmota pre-installed and explicitly states "no calibration needed".
> Are we afraid that this might happen to us too?

No, I'm more frustrated by the pseudoscience that models of frequency associations in text are explanations of people (or anything else). The choice isn't between a pseudoscientific behaviouralism where animals have no presence in the world, no mental faculties, and so on vs. "magic".

> When I'm in a conversation I'm also selecting the optimal word from a predefined dictionary

Consider it this way: the probability dististribution over all possible world for you speaking is parameterized on space and time: Pyou(x, t; ...). And of the LLM generating text, Pllm(historical data).

So imagine plotting the live probability distributions of Pyou and Pllm for any given situation. As you think, imagine, move, recall, prefer, desire... the Pyou goes "wild" with dramatic discontinous shifts in distribution brought about by these causes.

Whereas the Pllm remains the same. It never changes. It never reacts to anything at all.

The whole distribution over all prior text tokens, Pllm is a stationary model of frequency associations. Yours is not. This makes all the difference in the world when claiming that Pllm somehow models, or is even relevant to, Pyou.
This applies nearly universally in open source. If documentation isn’t sufficient, jump into the source code and most things can be figured out. Reading other people’s code is also a great way to learn/experience different approaches
Not the war on drugs, but certainly the "war on terror". This is not clinging to definitions, it is political reality that such measures would also be undertaken in peace time, any justification would suffice. Who do you believe would draw the line here anyway?

Also, especially in times of war, there is a heightened interest of people getting news and independent reporting. Any other news isn't worth the read.
> We're even getting better at providing more than merely paint as protection for cyclists: https://maps.app.goo.gl/2VT3SbjrK27w72826.

I would say that the UK is awful at implementing separated infrastructure for cyclists (and e-scooters etc). That picture is an example as the cycle lane on the opposite side of the road appears to have had bollards removed. Also, there's no bollards where the traffic island is located and that's exactly where you'd want more protection from drivers as they're likely to be swerving in towards the cycle lane.
My advice would be to not take any claims of "harsh truths" as gospel.
nice bot
Then why close the offices and make them png?
I'm not talking about xz, I'm talking about that OpenJS thing: random people emailing out of the blue "plz gimme maintainer". Entirely different situation.

I did quote the "three JS projects were targeted in failed attempts" bit, which should have made that abundantly clear.
> When the LLM generates each word it does so because it is, on average, the most common word in a corpus of text on which it was trained: "wearing" follows, "I like what you were" because most people who were having these conversations, captured in the training data, were talking about clothes.

Yes. Now extend this to the context length of GPT-4 turbo- about 240 pages of text. So from your description, "wearing" is just the "most common word" to follow those 240 pages of (previously unseen, unique) text according to its training data. Quite simple, nothing to see here, I suppose.
Even if this is a serious project, particular author of this project has a right to build something, and try to carve out an audience for it. Nothing wrong with that.
That's an interesting example, since an LLM has no concept of a "self" and literally does not know who it is. It can only answer it "correctly" if you prefix it with a prompt telling it who and what it is.
I just looked at the code. It's mostly just handling events and conditions a driver would need to handle just to be a functional driver.

I don't think you could write any driver in 50 lines of code?
Nice!

Could save a couple of cycles per iteration by preloading the shift amounts into several GPRs before entering the loop, instead of initializing them just before use.
ADHD - A Lifelong Struggle
https://gekk.info/articles/adhd.html

This article made me question if the author was describing my life rather than their own, so I went and got checked for ADHD. 2 years, a diagnosis, and a medication regime later, I'm absolutely fucking slaying it and it was this article that sparked the change.
I wouldn't say so.

* Bruce Schneier writing about the NSA: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/govern...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullrun_(decryption_program)
Unless your application use GPU for rendering and you have more than one GPU involved, or have GPU driver that doesn't implicitly serialize events behind the scenes (as it should NOT), and your display stack has not yet migrated to experimental extension that patches Wayland with actual support for synchronized rendering (explicit sync).

If any of the above applies, tear-free behaviour is accidental, because Wayland protocol design fucked up synchronization primitives from day 1.
The state's enemy isn't my enemy. Consider the case of Edward Snowden. Journalism is still valuable even if you disagree with the person's motives or aims.
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There are also a few ways to spread make managed processes over multiple nodes, assuming they share storage, which could be useful if your transforms bottleneck at the CPU rather than on storage or network IO.
Decompiling Hyper-V Manager to rebuild it from source
I hate having to make accounts with publishers for games - so I’m happy that everyone got Sony to back down.

I however don’t understand why this game in particular and why Sony in particular received so much backlash, other than it wasn’t required at launch. This isn’t a new practice and most games do this now unfortunately. Microsoft, EA, Activision, Ubisoft, etc.
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> Funny to see myself being downvoted for a harmless call for a reason

You made a critical snarky dismissal comment, what did you expect?

Might I suggest reviewing: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Here’s a couple to specifically call out:

1. Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

2. Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
The Intel AZ fab in Chandler typically has the best yields out of all Intel fabs. TSMC likely thought they were tapping into that labor market when building in Phoenix. However they built on the other side of the metropolitan area. It’s an hour drive from the Chandler Intel facility to TSMC without traffic. With traffic, it’s an hour and a half. Any established Intel engineer isn’t going to give up their 30min daily commute for a 3 hour round trip commute.

I’ve also heard that the electrical unions will only work 9-5, M-F, and demand a 3 day lead time. Intel has just learned to incorporate that into their planning, while TSMC attempted to bypass the union. Expect TSMC is either adapting, or the AZ politicians have interceded with the unions.
It's easy to check BLS inflation against old ads for goods and see that BLS inflation is pretty spot on. I've yet to meet someone claiming "massive understated inflation" that has done this simple check honestly.

As to the claim that "fiat currencies are fleeting," it is a fact every country of 200+ has one, so it's safer to say every non-fiat currency has failed.

There's also significant empirical evidence such economies are on the whole less volatile than older ones limited by how fast one can dig material out of a hole. See a list of severity and frequency of US recessions, or study the Great Moderation, or simply look at the volatility of gold prices, to see how unstable non-fiat pricing is.
Me too. But Wayland is just better for everyday use.
You’re saying this with confidence as if there isn’t a large body of working image and video generation algorithms out there that can produce physically plausible images of objects transposed into circumstances that don’t exist in their training set. A coffee using a macro lens for example.

Is it so hard to believe that such models have developed a sense for how light propagates through a scene, a sense for how physical objects change when viewed from different angles, a sense for how lens distortion interacts with light? For goodness’ sake, these same models have a sense of what Greg Rutkowski’s art style is - we are well beyond ‘they’re just remembering pixels from past coffeecups’
Because measuring diversity of thought is much more difficult, and thought isn't a legally protected class.
Of course not everyone understands English perfectly. Even among native speakers it's easy to misunderstand (especially on a web forum). I wasn't making a judgement.

Anyway, it was pointed out that the same user that said "dead in the water" did indeed comment upthread that BSDs will "end up dying," so goes to show that I wasn't paying attention.